Chapter 139 "Taoyuan Army"

On the parade ground, whether people were from the Central District or the North District, those who could still stand crowded together on the left, while those who could not stand sat in rows on the right.

Pan Yingying and Yu Chaosheng stood on the stage, with several large boxes behind them. The boxes were filled with small coins, sparkling in the winter sun.

Yu Chaosheng held up the loudspeaker and cleared his throat.

"Today has finally come to the most exciting moment, that is - rewarding people according to their merits!"

Everyone in the audience, young and old, secretly clenched their fists.

Some people who were not good at math were still counting on their fingers, trying to figure out how much silver they could get in total.

Yu Chaosheng took out a list from his arms and began to read out the names one by one.

"Long Si, 23 taels."

Long Si walked onto the stage with his head held high, and two servants counted out 23 taels from the box and handed them to him.

"Long Qi, 22 taels and 3 cents."

"Long Jiu, 22 taels."

"..."

The rewards were distributed one by one, and everyone on the field received the bonus for killing the Tartar.

Yu Chaosheng was dry-mouthed, and at the last moment, he held Pan Yingying's hand.

"Now, I declare that the Taoyuan Army is officially established! Everyone is a part of the Taoyuan Army!"

The audience cheered and some people took off their hats and threw them into the air.

Pan Yingying and Yu Chaosheng looked at each other and curled their lips.

Zhao pressed the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief.

The Taoyuan Army has been established. How long will it take for them to attack the capital and avenge His Highness and His Majesty?

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The prisoners put on gray jackets and cotton shoes and built the factory in the wind and snow.

At this time in the past, they would all stay hungry by the fire in their own tents. Now, although they have to work every day, they are well fed and warmly dressed, have meat every three days, and can read and write every night. Their life is much better than on the grassland.

So until now they have been working hard without complaint, and no one has thought of running away.

After a day's work was completed, more than a hundred reformed prisoners were taken to attend night farming classes. Others looked at them with envy because they heard that they were going to learn how to raise horses and sheep better and stronger.

They also want to learn, but people say they haven't been reformed yet.

But they don’t understand what transformation means.

The weather is getting colder, and even the fat Batian is wearing a festive red jacket.

Pan Yingying was lying on the kang reading her melodramatic storybook, while Yu Chaosheng was writing furiously beside her, seriously writing his novel about Long Aotian.

The villagers of Taoyuan Village have recently fallen in love with reading serialized storybooks in front of the village bulletin board.

Yu Chaosheng finished writing every day, and the servants would print it out and post it on bulletin boards everywhere.

In order to realize his dream of becoming a writer, Yu Chaosheng invented movable type printing.

Posted along with his novel was the catalog of books in Pan Yingying's small library, which included her melodramatic storybooks and the storybooks submitted by Lin Xiao'e.

Pan Yingying said that as long as there are many people who follow the update of the storybook, she will print books for them and sell them all over Dahua!

So now many people are secretly learning to write storybooks.

Besides studying and training, the women would get together to knit sweaters and study recipes.

The men had to take turns guarding the prisoners and supervising, and they also had to study and participate in reading training. Everyone in the village was very busy, but this kind of busyness made people happy from the bottom of their hearts.

The busiest class recently is the agricultural class, because they are studying the types of crops to be planted in the spring and how to make the crops more productive. Xu Yuanzhi almost collapsed from studying so much.

After the battle with the Tartars, everyone in the Xu family found that the youngest child in the family seemed to have suddenly grown up.

Specifically, he studies and trains harder, takes the initiative to share housework at home, and even occasionally learns medical knowledge from Dr. Xu.

After the war, Yu Chaosheng asked every villager to write a post-war reflection, which would be graded by the teachers. The reflection with the highest score would be posted on the bulletin board for everyone to see.

Xu Yuanzhi won first place and received a red silk flower and a scholarship of five taels of silver.

That night, the Xu family bought some meat from the grocery store to celebrate, and threatened that if Xu Yuanzhi could get first place in the final exam, they would treat the entire village to a buffet.

Xu Yuanzhi: …

The ones who want him dead the most are his closest family members!
Who can beat those perverts in the exam?

But the villagers seemed to have made an agreement, and everyone would ask about his academic progress when they met him.

This made Xu Yuanzhi miserable. He studied until late at night every day, and the weight he had gained with great difficulty was lost again.

But what do your family members say?

They say he has grown taller and taller.

He didn't know if he had grown taller or not, but he had lost weight!
These hateful adults, for the sake of face and a piece of meat, actually ignored his life or death.

He is truly the most pitiful child in the world.

Woo woo woo...

Yu Chuner and Yu Qiuer finished their homework early and came to their uncle's house. Now Pan Yingying didn't need them to help with cooking, but the two little girls still often came to play with their aunt.

Pan Yingying built an oven in the yard using the blueprints she bought from the system mall. The two sisters became obsessed with baking bread and would bake it every few days.

Let them do what they want here, since everyone gets a share of the baked bread anyway.

The two little girls walked into the house hand in hand, took off their cloaks and hung them on their special hangers, put on their woolen slippers and stepped onto the carpet.

Batian lay on Pan Yingying's legs, opened his eyes lazily, saw that it was them, and closed his eyes again and continued to sleep.

"Aunt, my sister and I discussed it last night and found that we can sprinkle dried fruits on the bread. It will definitely taste good when baked." Yu Qiuer took off her slippers and climbed onto the kang, then leaned over to take a look at the storybook that Pan Yingying was reading.

Pan Yingying put down the storybook and said, "Children can't read this."

Yu Qiuer was laughing without any shyness on her face. She knew that her aunt was reading those indecent stories told by her uncle again.

She and her sister also watched it secretly, and there was nothing special about it, just some content that made people feel creepy.

For example, the prince protagonist cut off the kidney of the heroine in "Beauty of Beauty" to save the evil female supporting role, the concubine protagonist got pregnant with the prince protagonist's child and ran away, and so on.

For her, if any man dared to bully her, she would stab the man 128 times, and none of the strikes would be fatal. She would then let her sister Liu Ru, who wanted to be a lawyer in the future, help her with the lawsuit.

"How much do you plan to bake today?" Pan Yingying put down the script and took out a small cup of black tea from the small cabinet by the window, planning to make a pot later.

Yu Chuner did some calculations and climbed onto the kang to sit on the other side of Pan Yingying. "About 50. The extra ones can be put on consignment at the grocery store."

She took out a dime from the small purse at her waist and put it on the table. "This is the cost of the materials this time."

Pan Yingying rolled her eyes at her and took out Yu Chaosheng's snacks from the cabinet. "Am I such a stingy person? Take them back quickly."

It is not easy for two little girls to save some money, and even if she likes money much, she is embarrassed to accept it.

Yu Qiuer hugged her arm and acted coquettishly, "Then would you like to come with us, little aunt?"

Pan Yingying opened her mouth to answer, but Yu Chaosheng, who was writing furiously, interrupted her, "She's not going. It's so cold, you guys can have fun by yourselves."

He was reluctant to let Pan Yingying go to that little house and ruin her body.

　I've emptied my brains out, not a single chapter left.

　　Please give me a reward!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)